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nvidia-graphics-drivers package

Screen garbage, mostly affecting fonts, appears after some minutes of desktop usage.

Bug #532111 reported by ZelinskiyIS on 2010-03-04

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #456637: Please consider turning powermizer OFF. Edit Remove

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Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Following bug report instructions:
1) Description: Ubuntu lucid (development branch)
Release: 10.04
2) NVIDIA Driver Version: 95.36.03 (taken from System -> Administration -> Nvidia X Server Settings)
3) Expected to see no garbage in the screen for all time
4)After some minutes of desktop usage visual garbage start to appear. Text on widgets seem to be mostly affected. There are attached screenshots.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Mar 4 21:27:39 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
DkmsStatus:
virtualbox-ose, 3.1.2, 2.6.32-15-generic, x86_64: installed
nvidia-current, 195.36.03, 2.6.31-19-generic, x86_64: installed
nvidia-current, 195.36.03, 2.6.32-15-generic, x86_64: installed
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/Xorg
MachineType: System manufacturer System Product Name
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ath_hal
Package: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.7.5-1ubuntu2
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=4f6537ec-374b-4e0f-891a-0858a57a32ff ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
PATH=(custom, no user)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-15.22-generic
SourcePackage: nvidia-graphics-drivers
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-15-generic x86_64
dmi.bios.date: 10/22/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies, LTD
dmi.bios.version: ASUS M2A-VM ACPI BIOS Revision 2201
dmi.board.name: M2A-VM
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
dmi.board.version: 1.XX
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: 123456789000
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Chassis Manufacture
dmi.chassis.version: Chassis Version
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologies,LTD:bvrASUSM2A-VMACPIBIOSRevision2201:bd10/22/2008:svnSystemmanufacturer:pnSystemProductName:pvrSystemVersion:rvnASUSTeKComputerINC.:rnM2A-VM:rvr1.XX:cvnChassisManufacture:ct3:cvrChassisVersion:
dmi.product.name: System Product Name
dmi.product.version: System Version
dmi.sys.vendor: System manufacturer
system:
distro: Ubuntu
codename: lucidarchitecture: x86_64kernel: 2.6.32-15-generic

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ZelinskiyIS (ivze) wrote on 2010-03-04:

#1

Screen garbage example Edit (189.6 KiB, image/png)
BootDmesg.txt Edit (41.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
CurrentDmesg.txt Edit (7.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (3.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
GdmLog.txt Edit (9.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
GdmLog1.txt Edit (9.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
GdmLog2.txt Edit (9.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lspci.txt Edit (20.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lsusb.txt Edit (377 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
PciDisplay.txt Edit (2.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcAttrCurrent.gz Edit (57 bytes, application/x-gzip)
ProcCpuinfo.txt Edit (1.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcInterrupts.txt Edit (1.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (18.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcModules.txt Edit (3.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (742 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
RelatedPackageVersions.txt Edit (253 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevDb.txt Edit (94.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevLog.txt Edit (210.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgConf.txt Edit (1.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgLog.txt Edit (13.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgLogOld.txt Edit (12.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Xrandr.txt Edit (15.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
glxinfo.txt Edit (24.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
monitors.xml.txt Edit (1.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
setxkbmap.txt Edit (316 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
xdpyinfo.txt Edit (22.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
xkbcomp.txt Edit (47.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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ZelinskiyIS (ivze) wrote on 2010-03-04:

#2

Graphical garbage screenshot Edit (741.4 KiB, image/png)

Another beautiful screenshot.

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ZelinskiyIS (ivze) wrote on 2010-03-05:

#3

Screen capture Edit (7.0 MiB, video/x-msvideo)

I have taken and attached a screen capture video of what can be seen.

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ZelinskiyIS (ivze) wrote on 2010-03-22:

#4

Screenshot Edit (592.0 KiB, image/png)

After performing a clean install of lucid 22 march daily build the bug is still here.

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ZelinskiyIS (ivze) wrote on 2010-03-29:

#5

After system update&upgrade some hours ago, I tested it again. The bug is still here with symptoms unchanged.
Card: NVidia GT220,
driver: 195.36.15.

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ZelinskiyIS (ivze) wrote on 2010-04-03:

#6

I have found a suitable work-around for this bug.
After changing PowerMizer mode from "Adaptive" to "Performance" the screen corruption stopped to happen. I have tested it for three hours. Taking in consideration that the failure happened before with frequency about 7 minutes, I suggest that the erroneous behavior is somehow connected to frequency altering.
There is a related thread @ ubuntuforums: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9066892#post9066892

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ZelinskiyIS (ivze) wrote on 2010-04-26:

#7

BIOS firmware update seems to fix the issue completely.
See the duplicate bug report for more details.

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ZelinskiyIS (ivze) wrote on 2010-05-15:

#8

For the sake of those, who came occasionally over this bug report from the Internet.
There is no solution yet, my success report above is false.

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